Digital education is a recently highlighted challenge for educational innovation. This study aimed to discover the educational conditions in which teachers and students may be involved during the pandemic, and how these may affect teachers’ wor...
The increase in greenhouse gas emissions prompts the transport sector towards new technological perspectives on personal mobility. Addressing sustainable mobility through electric micromobility requires interdisciplinary design research methods and a...
Teacher design teams (TDTs) are increasingly used as a means for teacher professional development. It has been posited that for teacher learning to occur, TDTs need support from team coaches. These coaches are either external experts or peer teachers...
This mixed-methods study examines how specific design features (SDF) in e-picture books influence phonological awareness (PA) and print knowledge (PK) among Chinese preschoolers. Ninety 5-year-old children were assigned to three groups: an e-picture-...
Department store interiors are complex public interior environments in which circulation, wayfinding, visual perception, sensory comfort, and staff interaction operate simultaneously. Although accessibility is increasingly discussed in built environm...
27 September 2021
Informal caregivers face risks of social isolation. Given the high prevalence of informal caregivers in Europe, a considerable proportion of the population are also former caregivers. The Finnish Expert Caregiver intervention sought to train former c...
16 July 2021
Objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate dental patients’ behavior, thoughts, opinions and needs for oral cancer information, and dentists’ behavior regarding prevention and examination of oral cancer. Materials and Methods: This st...
The fashion industry generates a major environmental impact, requiring integrated sustainable approaches. This study integrates six thematic axes—sustainability, modular design, natural materials, eco-friendly dyeing, multidimensional comfort a...
The way in which the current fashion industry operates needs to fundamentally change. In this endeavour, designers are considered central figures throughout the sustainable fashion literature. However, too little is known about clothing designers&rsq...
For the environment protection and sustainable development in building construction, waste concrete can be processed into recycled aggregate to mix the recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). However, the existing mix design methods of RAC were complex, a...
To quantitatively evaluate the skeleton design of the MaFF method, this study addresses five dimensions: gradation control, test method, quantitative model, correction conversion, and design method. First, the deviation coefficient method is proposed...
The teaching of climate change in geography is frequently reduced to a curricular content, whereas it is a systemic, multi-scalar and axiologically contested phenomenon whose understanding calls for expert geographical reasoning. This article is a co...
The undesirable properties of conventional recycled fine aggregate (RFA) often limit its application in the construction industry. To overcome this challenge, a method for preparing completely recycled fine aggregate (CRFA), which crushes all concret...
The multiscale rheological threshold theory can guide the mix design of self-compacting concrete (SCC) from a trans-scale view. Through the paste thresholds calculated by the mini-slump flow test results, the workability of SCC can be predicted. Howe...
Background/Objectives: Digital health ecosystems increasingly integrate content, behavioral interventions, and commercial offerings across multiple platforms. While design consistency is established as critical for trust in commercial contexts, its a...
14 November 2025
There remains a persistent lack of patient-centered evidence on insurance reform and real-world experiences of patients with chronic disease. This study gathered insights around insurance design from chronic disease beneficiaries. This mixed-methods...
Indoor biophilic design may support student well-being and learning, yet evidence relevant to higher education interior environments has not undergone systematic synthesis with formal quality appraisal. This systematic mixed-methods review followed t...
Global climate change is an important, complex problem worldwide. Systems thinking skills enable us to solve complex problems from a holistic perspective. Based on this relationship, in this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of a systems thin...
Natural language processing techniques have increased the volume and variety of text data that can be analyzed. The aim of this study was to identify the positive and negative topical sentiments among diet, diabetes, exercise, and obesity tweets. Usi...
17 September 2023
The global relevance of pressure injury (PI) prevention technologies arise from their impact on the quality of life of people with limited mobility and the costs associated with treating these preventable injuries. The purpose of this mixed methods s...
Thirty general education candidates from elementary education, middle/secondary education, and arts education in multiple sections of one course engaged in a series of discussion posts and lesson plans related to creating inclusive general education...
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the imperative for meaningful family involvement in long-term care, aligning with policy and safety standards while enhancing outcomes for caregivers, residents, and staff. The objectives of this article are as follo...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) serve as catalysts for sustainable education by democratizing access to lifelong learning. While this potentially positions them as a key driver of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), their l...
18 December 2019
The aim of this study was to investigate facilitating and hindering factors when implementing a physical activity (PA)-promoting program among office workers moving to a flex office, by conducting a process evaluation. Additionally, we evaluated self...
Background: Diabetes is common among nursing home residents, with approximately one in four affected, a figure expected to rise. Despite the complexity of care required, educational support for nursing home staff remains limited. This study will aim...
Several structural design problems that involve continuous and discrete variables are very challenging because of the combinatorial and non-convex characteristics of the problems. Although the deterministic optimization approach theoretically guarant...
Background/Objectives: Decreased well-being may be a precursor to mental health challenges. Mental health visits for 5–11-year-old children increased by 24% from 2019 to 2020. COVID-19 led to record high levels of anxiety and depression in youn...
This study responds to the urgent need for education that fosters sustainable, self-directed development by introducing a five-phase narrative instruction pre-module grounded within the Life Design Thinking (LDT) framework. Integrating design thinkin...
Over the past two decades, sustainability and quality of life (QoL) have become foundational concepts in the design of buildings and urban spaces. Due to their strong interrelation and shared emphasis on human well-being, distinguishing between these...
The design parameters of a mixing system have a major impact on the quality of the final product. Therefore, identifying the optimum parameters of mixing systems is highly relevant to various industrial processes dealing with particulate flows. Howev...
29 May 2020
Mixed methods research has been increasingly recognized as a useful approach for describing and explaining complex issues in palliative care and end-of-life research. However, little is known about the use of this methodology in the field and the way...
Background: The concept of evidence-based practice (EBP) is globally relevant in current healthcare climates. However, nursing students and teachers often struggle with integrating EBP effectively into a curriculum. This has implications for the way...
22 January 2021
A key prerequisite for implementing biopsychosocial exercise therapy concepts as parts of multimodal rehabilitation programs is interprofessional teamwork. Based on a nationwide survey of exercise therapy using a mixed methods design, it is of intere...
The design research and education landscapes are changing. The widespread development and use of technologies such as Mixed Reality (MR) and the diffusion of Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) available at low cost are causing a shift in design education t...
To improve the understanding of the mixing performance of double shaft, batch-type paddle mixers, the discrete element method (DEM) in combination with a Plackett–Burman design of experiments simulation plan is used to identify factor significa...
Existing research shows that using waterborne epoxy resin (WER) instead of emulsified asphalt as the binder for cold mix asphalt (CMA) can enhance the rutting resistance, high-temperature performance, fracture performance, and early performance of CM...
A scientific and concise mix design method is an impending problem in the engineering application of self-compacting steel-fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC). This paper focuses on the mix proportion of self-compacting SFRC, which is influenced by the...
Prominence of concrete is characterized by its high mechanical properties and durability, combined with multifunctionality and aesthetic appeal. Development of alternative eco-friendly or multipurpose materials has conditioned improvements in concret...
22 August 2024
This study assessed vaccination coverage and its associated factors among children aged 12–23 months in pastoralist Ethiopia. It was conducted in three woredas of the Afar region using a community-based cross-sectional mixed methods design with...
This study attempts to propose an availability optimization decision support design system for repairable n-stage mixed systems, in which different combinations of subsystems, such as parallel, standby, and k-out-of-q, are connected in series configu...
This paper presents a meta-analysis of social research on water, offering a novel methodological contribution to the study of emerging interdisciplinary research fields. We propose and implement a mixed methods framework that integrates quantitative...
Making sense of complex objects is difficult, and typically requires the use of external representations to support cognitive demands while reasoning about the objects. Visualizations are one type of external representation that can be used to suppor...
Cycling mobility contributes to better livability in cites, helps societies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and their dependency on fossil fuels, and shows positive health effects. However, unattractive conditions, primarily inadequate infrastruct...
This study investigated the mix design and engineering properties of controlled low-strength material (CLSM) by partial replacement of fine aggregate using water purification sludge (WPS). First, an investigation was performed at laboratory scale to...
As exhibition halls become highly adaptable and technology-driven, they risk excluding aging demographics due to cognitive barriers. Addressing the empirical gap regarding this tension, this study validates a quantitative evaluation model based on th...
To address the limited evidence base and lack of replicable methods for age-specific design in corridor-based informal learning spaces (ILSs) in resource-constrained primary schools, this study examines age-related spatial needs through a low-cost mi...
In this study, the effects of pseudo-ternary oxides on mechanical properties and microstructure of 316L stainless steel tungsten inert gas (TIG) and activating tungsten inert gas (ATIG) welded joints were investigated. The novelty in this work is int...
As part of the European Erasmus+ IM-PRO-IN-DE project, this article evaluates a qualification course in instructional design for digital learning, with particular attention to Universal Design for Learning (UDL), creative thinking and inclusive educa...
This research presents the increase of the Trichoderma harzianum production process in a biotechnology company. The NOBA (Near-Orthogonal Balanced arrays) method was used to fractionate a mixed-level factorial design to minimize costs and experimenta...
Accessible design within the built environment has often focused on mobility conditions and has recently widened to include mental health. Additionally, as one in seven are neurodivergent (including conditions such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and dysp...
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